John C. Charles

Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Abandoning the Black Hero examines the motivations that led certain African American authors in mid-twentieth century to shift from writing protest novels about racial injustice to novels focusing primarily, if not exclusively on whites, or white-life novels. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling authors Willard Motley and Frank Yerby.

Produktdetails

• American Literatures Initiativ
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780813554327
• ISBN-10: 0813554322
• Artikelnr.: 36146345

Autorenporträt

Charles, John C

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "I'm Regarded Fatally as a Negro Writer": Mid-Twentieth-Century Racial
Discourse and the Rise of the White-Life Novel
2. The Home and the Street: Ann Petry's "Rage for Privacy"
3. White Masks and Queer Prisons
4. Sympathy for the Master: Reforming Southern White Manhood in Frank
Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow
5. Talk about the South: Unspeakable Things Unspoken in Zora Neale
Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
6. The Unfinished Project of Western Modernity: Savage Holiday, Moral
Slaves, and the Problem of Freedom in Cold War America
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index